QA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 21 51
Rank change year-on-year -43 +30 -11
Permanent jobs citing QA 251 501 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.52% 8.78% 5.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.06% 41.13% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 144 129 222
10th Percentile £31,075 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,925 £55,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -7.17% +13.40%
75th Percentile £56,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 963 1,218 1,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.52% 21.35% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 542 476 651
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,375 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,973 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -11.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £76,125 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -31 110 £50,000 -13.04% 37
Oxfordshire -21 94 £45,000 -18.18% 34
Buckinghamshire -52 47 £47,500 +10.74% 29
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.99%) Kinematics
1 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) CMS
3 2 (0.80%) Apache
3 2 (0.80%) nginx
3 2 (0.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.29%) Azure
2 55 (21.91%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (14.34%) AWS
4 24 (9.56%) GCP
5 20 (7.97%) SaaS
6 10 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.99%) GitHub
9 4 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.80%) Asana
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.80%) Basecamp
11 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Smartsheet
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) Firewall
2 6 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.99%) 5G
3 5 (1.99%) Bluetooth
3 5 (1.99%) GSM
3 5 (1.99%) Internet
3 5 (1.99%) ISDN
3 5 (1.99%) LTE
3 5 (1.99%) PSTN
3 5 (1.99%) RFID
3 5 (1.99%) UMTS
3 5 (1.99%) Wireless
4 3 (1.20%) DNS
4 3 (1.20%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) MQTT
6 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.40%) RS-485
6 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.56%) BigQuery
1 24 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (9.56%) Looker
2 16 (6.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.99%) Big Data
5 3 (1.20%) EDRMS
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.80%) MySQL
6 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (8.37%) Selenium
2 12 (4.78%) Git
2 12 (4.78%) JIRA
2 12 (4.78%) WebDriver
3 11 (4.38%) NUnit
3 11 (4.38%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.59%) Cypress.io
5 8 (3.19%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.19%) TestRail
6 6 (2.39%) Bugzilla
6 6 (2.39%) Zephyr
7 5 (1.99%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.80%) Postman
9 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.40%) Appium
10 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.40%) Mockito
10 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 95 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 78 (31.08%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (13.15%) Retail
4 32 (12.75%) Manufacturing
5 24 (9.56%) Billing
6 22 (8.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 19 (7.57%) Finance
8 13 (5.18%) Legal
8 13 (5.18%) Marketing
9 12 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.98%) Electronics
11 9 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.19%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.79%) Back Office
13 7 (2.79%) Police
14 6 (2.39%) Multimedia
15 5 (1.99%) Games
16 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 3 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (12.75%) Analyst
2 30 (11.95%) QA Engineer
3 26 (10.36%) Data Manager
4 25 (9.96%) Engineering Manager
5 24 (9.56%) Developer
6 20 (7.97%) Quality Manager
7 18 (7.17%) Senior
8 16 (6.37%) Lead
9 14 (5.58%) Software Developer
9 14 (5.58%) Test Analyst
10 13 (5.18%) QA Manager
10 13 (5.18%) Quality Engineer
11 12 (4.78%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.78%) Operations Analyst
12 10 (3.98%) Operations Business Analyst
12 10 (3.98%) Systems Developer
13 9 (3.59%) Administrator
13 9 (3.59%) QA Specialist
13 9 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.55%) .NET
2 23 (9.16%) .NET Core
3 22 (8.76%) JSON
4 18 (7.17%) CSS
5 17 (6.77%) XML
6 14 (5.58%) Web Services
7 11 (4.38%) HTML
8 8 (3.19%) Playwright
9 6 (2.39%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.99%) WPF
11 4 (1.59%) Middleware
12 2 (0.80%) EDI
12 2 (0.80%) Jest
12 2 (0.80%) React
13 1 (0.40%) Laravel
13 1 (0.40%) OAuth
13 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
13 1 (0.40%) REST
13 1 (0.40%) RESTful
13 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.76%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.37%) Biopharmaceutical
2 21 (8.37%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.18%) Virtual Team
4 12 (4.78%) Life Science
5 9 (3.59%) IoT
6 8 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.79%) Learning Management System
8 6 (2.39%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.39%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.39%) SCORM
9 5 (1.99%) Acoustics
9 5 (1.99%) GNSS
9 5 (1.99%) Pharmacovigilance
9 5 (1.99%) Satnav
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.20%) SCADA
12 2 (0.80%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.79%) Linux
1 7 (2.79%) Windows
2 3 (1.20%) Android
2 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.20%) Windows NT
2 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.45%) Agile
2 75 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (25.90%) DevOps
4 60 (23.90%) Project Management
5 49 (19.52%) Test Automation
6 43 (17.13%) Scrum
7 40 (15.94%) CI/CD
8 30 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (11.95%) Line Management
9 27 (10.76%) Product Backlog
10 26 (10.36%) Backlog Management
10 26 (10.36%) Business Strategy
11 25 (9.96%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (9.56%) Data Engineering
12 24 (9.56%) Data Modelling
12 24 (9.56%) ETL
13 21 (8.37%) Validation
14 20 (7.97%) Manual Testing
14 20 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
14 20 (7.97%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.94%) C#
2 37 (14.74%) SQL
3 23 (9.16%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.78%) Python
5 8 (3.19%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.39%) C
6 6 (2.39%) C++
6 6 (2.39%) Java
6 6 (2.39%) VB.NET
7 5 (1.99%) XAML
8 3 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (31.47%) Degree
2 19 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.38%) ISTQB
3 11 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.59%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.80%) ISEB
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) ISO 9001
2 9 (3.59%) ISO 14001
3 8 (3.19%) ISO 22301
3 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.19%) NEBOSH
4 7 (2.79%) GxP
4 7 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.59%) GMP
6 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.40%) COSHH
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 11 (4.38%) Firmware
2 6 (2.39%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.39%) Ansible
3 5 (1.99%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (1.59%) Terraform
5 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.20%) SCCM
5 3 (1.20%) Sysprep
5 3 (1.20%) WSUS
6 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.56%) Google
3 10 (3.98%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.39%) SAP
6 5 (1.99%) HP
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle
7 2 (0.80%) Sun
8 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) BT
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft